The Sun. — London, England, 1826-02-23 00:00:00

ri E LONDON JOU RN A LS. DA 11. Y Extracts fi•®m the Morning Papers, Feb. 23, 1826. CUOILNING cstitomcmj Mr. E. Ellice briugs the subject of the Silk Trade before the House to-night. We are sorry to observe that the distress in that trade is greatly on the increase. In Spitalfields, Manchester, Macclesfield,. Congleton, Norwich, &c. numbers of workmen are without employment ; and, un fortunately, matters do not yet seem to be at the worst. in addition to the other causes of distress the silk manufacturers entertain a great dread of the consequences of foreign competition, and they have persuaded the public in general that the re. moved of the restrictions will produce a wonder ful effect on prices ; so that shopkeepers are afraid to keep a stock of goods, which they may be forced to sell nt a loss ; and consumers are unwilling to buy now, in the hope that they may soon be able to buy on better terms. We are persuaded the apprehensions are, in a great de gree, groundless ; hut, as they are seriously en tertained, we cannot expeat the manufacturers will hazard much till the period of competition arrives. Before, however, the present Session is suffered to pass, we maintain that the silk manufacturers are justified in claiming from Ministers every pos sible facility that can be granted in the shape of reduced duties. And as the whole trade can re ceive but a certain amount of protection, we en treat of Ministers not to suffer themselves to be blinded by a partiality for any one particular branch of it ; but that they will strictly appor tion to each its equitable share of the protection, and no more. ‘V ithout such distribution, they will do infinite mischief.—We have been induced to throw out these hints its consequence of some information whirls has reached us, that an unwil. lingness is understood to have been expressed in a high quarter, to reduce, any further, the pre. sent enormous protection to the English Throw. sters. We have before offered an opinion on this point, and it is further strengthened by re. ilection i , that they are not entitled to anything like the present amount. Throwsters are by no means essenSiel to the continuance or existence of this trade. Let them think of this, and lower their pretensions accordingly, [AIOII,NI NO POST.] It is amusing to see the eagerness with which theorists of all descriptions lay hold of passing occurrences, whenever they are of n nature to excite general attention, for the purpose of making converts to their oe n peculiar doctrines. The philosophers of politics and trade do not disdain to turn against the practical nn when ever they think they have en opportunity of do ing so . , the weapons which are supposed to be. long peculiarly to the latter ; but they seldom wield them with any great skill, vigour or effect. At the present moment, the advocates of a repeal of the Usury Laws, as well us the ad vocates of a free trade in foreign corn, are pluming themselves ho the udvautuges which they suppose their respective Grummet& to derive from the recent convulsion of the coos mercial world. Upon this subject we have a word to say to each of these classes of philoso. phers. It is quite true, that during the great dititress for money, persons were forced to effect sates, of property at a loss, or to raise money by loan, at a rate in either case so far exceeding the legal rate of interest, that the latter wits for the mignent lost sight of, and indeed practically alio- Halted. It may also be said, that the wide differ erste between the legal rate and that fluctuating rate which the varyiug force of cirenmstances established from day to day, aggravated the pres sure, by narrowing or giving a very circumscribed los:ably to the Money Market, WP doubt, how ever, whether the latter circumstance did aggro). vote the pressure; for if the locality was circum scribed, the concentration was rendered more perfect ; the borrowers and lenders were brought together in a more limited arena, where the wants of one class and the means of the other could be more accurately as well as more promptly measured and adjusted. For the exi gencies of K momentary crisis, then, we might possibly doubt whether the system which narrows the lecality of the Money Market, by confining it to the region where, no matter by w hat meanie the dealers have practically freed themselves from the fetters of the Usury Laws, is not the best and most convenient system that could exist.' Noorgcment, Indeed, can be worth much, in favour of whichever side of the question it may be sup. posed to operate, that is deduced from the cir curnstances of such a crisis as is just passed. It is the business of Government to prevent the recurrence of such convulsions, and not to legislate with a view to their existence, as if they were the natural and ordinary condition of society. This proposition brings us at once into contract with the advocates for a free trade in corn, who contend stoutly that the existing re. strictions have contributed to produce the convul sitm, and that a free trade would have at) ob• vious tendency to prevent its recurrence. Their argument is simply. this, that a high price of corn re duces the general rate of profit and of interest, and consequently renders men mere protu to in. ordinate and hazardous speculations. Is this consequence quite clear ? is it so very obvious that a low rate of profit, or in other words, a slow accumulation of copital, promotes the growth or impels to the excesses of the speculative spirit ? We confess that we phould have thought the reverse of this to be the truth. Wp can perceive how a rate of profit rapidly declin ing in consequence of a very quick acrunnt lotion of capital may give an unnatural and miichievous impulse to speculation. Rape. (ion should have opened our eyes to this natural sequence of cause and elect, if experience a nd o bservation (for who can doubt that the recent circumstances present en instance of it), had not forced it upon our conviction.— But the Corn Laws, so far as they have operated at all, unless indeed effkt upon the rate of profit and accumulation of capital is grossly miscast ceived by every body, must have operated, not to assist, hut to counteract the mischief. We have no disposition certainty to extol the value I tither of the Usury or Corn Laws, in conse quence of the tendencies we have . ascribed to them, so far as those tendencies may have operated in the recent and extraordinary circumstances of the country. Their value is to he computed with reference 'exclusively to the effects they produce upon the community, in its natural, and whole some, and ordinary state. Recent experience is in some degree to be suSpected, merely because it is recent. In matters of such importance as those under consideration, we can proceed with safety to decision, not by judging.of effects from temporary and unnatural causes, but by being go verned by the evidence of our senses, the dictates of reason, and the test of long and instructive ex , perience. [TII T151E9.] Nothing at present seems to engage the 'atten tion of the French journalists so much •as the' proposed change in the law of succession to pro perty. By the existing law, as most of our readers know, a Frenchman is restricted in the disposal of his property either by gift or legacy ; and if ho dies intestate, his estate, whether in land or moveables, is equally divided among his children. If he has only one child, he may di s p ose , by gift or legacy, of the half of his estate to any third party : if he has two, he may 1 dispose of a third part; and if he has more than tw o , his power of willing away extends only to a fourth part. When he has used this power over a part of his property, the law steps in and divides the remainder equally among his childr e n, w ithout any regard to their sex or primogeeiture : if he has no personal preferences, and leaves his estate to the disposal of the law, the whole of it is divided in the same manner. — No entail is allowed, the law declaring that the proprietor who transfers his possessions to ano ther by gift or legacy Ices no farther power over them, end therefore cannot direct them into the hands of a third party. Nearly the same regu lations are prescribed for the division of property among ascendants in the direct line, where there are no children. Since the return of the Bour bons, as the peerage was rendered hereditary, a power was given up of creating a hereditary estate for the support of its dignity. The law proposed to be introduced in' the present session goes to alter the existing code respecting the sue cession to property,and to egtublisti certain privi leges in favour of primogenitpre ; but what its particular provisions and arrangements are, we do not yet know. If we are to take the voice of the journals, and the decliirations of opposition pamphlets, as speaking the sense of the nation, the great body of the French people are against the proposed change. Several petitions-against it are already published ; and the well known ad vocate Dupin has written a very popular work, exposing its apprehended mischiefs. That time la w, as it exists at present, has a tendency to create a very minute division of property, is evi dent from the facts which we mentioned yester d4. It,rs supporters admit the fact, and point to the improved condition of the country as its colt quence. But whether a law which has hitherto been beneficial during a short existence, may be considered as free from ell danger in its subse quent operation, may admit of dispute. A qiiarter of a century is scureely sufficient for estimating fully the effects of such a system ; and if its operation should he to produce a still further division of landed property, it might he the occasion of greater evils than it has yet re-, medied. On the other hand, it appears to us almost self-evident, that, by' the provisions which we have mentioned ; above, a Wan has too little power over the destination of Lis' own property. •,_ . [NEW TINIEs.I Nothing took place last in the House of Lords, ex c ept the presenting of a few petitions. In the Commons, it will be seen that Mr. Cal. l craft gave notice that itorwould, at a future day, move for an issue of Exchequer Bills to. ECHVV, the present distress among the commercial classes. Strong as are the objections which have already been stated in Parliament against such a measure, we cannot, say that it is unfit to he again bionglit under the deliberate view of the Legislature. 1‘ e do till6t,hoWeVer that when it is taken up, it will be in a tone and spirit extremely different fron► those displayed in it Morning Print of yesterday. 'flint paper is notorious for treating the subject of commercial distress with a heartless levity. On the present occasion it seems to think that by taunting and ridiculing the Miniatera it cal l p i e-1 vent them from giving a cool and dispassionate consideration to the difficulties of the case. If they adhere firmly to their original views, they are 64 sturdy , theorists ;" if they adapt their measures to any great and important change of circumstances, they spew " imbecility in action I" The most monstrous, however, of all the absur dities of this absurd. Journalist is his clamour for ‘ 4 lower prices !" At a moment when most of our commodities are ruinously low in price, and when foreign, speculators are enabled to buy our tnanufactures here so low as to miders.,llos in their own markets—at such a time it is that we are told, " the only rational and upright remedy is to lower the prices." "By all means, Gentlemen, let the thing go out ; pelt ,the specu. !kora with Bank notes--keep up prices." 'such is the vulgar irony of a writer, who can OM' matter for merriment in the embarrassments of merchants and ma nufacturers, and in the suffer- 1 logs which those embarrassments necessarily en tail on thousands of mnnufacturing labourers ! The South American Treaties' Bill was rend a second time, and ordered to be committed this day. The Exchequer Bills' Bill was also rend a second time, and ordered to be wail a third time to-day. Sir 12.. Inglis express ed his regret, that sufficient care had not been taken in the Commercial Treaties to provide for the f r e e exerc i se o f t h e P rotestant re li g ion in Catholic countriecheciur— " s . The Chancellor of the E x- I agree with the Honourable Mem ber most heartily in wishing for the most ex» tenaive freedom to Protestnnis in Catholic countries, and I hope that the Ifonourable Mem ber will think of extending his views on. the subject or toleration to Catholics in Protestant countries." [MORNING HERALD.] It is singular how many petitions have of late been presented against the buying and selling of black men. This shews the feeling of the people, especially the Quakers and Methodists, for they have been at the bottom of this petitioning. It is, however, lamentable to think that, at present, such petitioning is useless. For neither France ) the United States, nor Spain, Portugal, or the .Brazils, will agree to the abolition of slavery, and therefore our Government cannot, if it would, carry into effect the views of those petitioning. We do not agree with Mr. Hume that 30,000 seamen and 6,000,0001. a year for the Navy are too much, Considering the British territories in every quarter of the world, and the strides that France and the United States, and the Northern Powers are making in their Navies, we are of opinion that 30,000 men are not too many. Sooner than reduce the Navy, we would rather see the interest of the Debt reduced.--(lbid.) We were glad that Mr. Hobbouse, in bringing forward the petition of Mr. Bernard Ross re opecting one of the Companies ► gave the Company the name of Scheme. Take these Companies in general—that is, ninety-nine out of one hundred, they are nothing but Schemes to pick people's poc. kets. A year ago, when all were mad after those Schemes, we were the first to warn people of them, and we first gave them the name of Scheme— and we no sooner applied that word to them than they begun to full in price, and ever since they have been falling, till ut length we believe no one will purchase them at all. To these schemes, and to the system of the Stock Exchange, may most of the late ruin and the self-destruction in high and medium life be attributed.—(Mid.) lnni'rts►t PRESS. The French gapers are filled with tlisserta tions on the proposed change in the laws of inhe ritance in that country. No alteration of greater importance has been attempted in the French Constitution ShICP the period of the revolution, none is more likely to excite opposition, and none, if carried into effect, could produce more im portant consequences. It is not a law to alter some particular relation, some individual or limited interest. It is one which overturns the whole system upon which the possession of pro- perty is now founded. It strikes at the very basis of that system which has so long subsisted in France. These Papers contain different re ports relative to the affairs of the North. Long accounts are given in them of the funeral of the Emperor Alexander. An Address of the mers chants of St. Petersburgh to the Empress, and a Rescript bestowing the dignity of a Count of the Empire on Orloff, for his conduct in the late transactions, are also contnined in our extracts. The fact of Nesselrode's re-ap pointment as Minister by the Emperor Nicholas is expected to give considerable embarrassment to Metternich, who has learned to dread his abi. lities. It is reported in the Salons of Paris that Nicholas has written an autograph letter to the King of England, and, if the report have any truth in it, the Emperor seems very anxious at least to save appearances, and to make a virtue of necessity, in those ambitious designs which he is supposed to have formed against Turkey. A sin gular account is given in the Quotidienne of the result of the inquiries into the late conspiracy at St. Petersburgh, which is said to have existed in the campaign which terminates}- in the Peace of Tilsit, and to hove been discovered to Alexander by Buottuparte. rTIIE PUBLIC LEDGER.I The French Papers have some curious specula Bons on the policy of England, particularly as it relates to Russia and Turkey. They have sent Lord Strangford up the Mediterranean on some diplomatic voyage of discovery, though his Lord ship lies been for those two tuguths past at St. Petersburg!). But the view they take of the Dui«. of Wellington's mission to the Russian capital leaves the former speculation, ridiculous as it is, at an immeasurable distance. Jp the tir4t place, they surround his Grace with the lbst pprt of o►►r diplomatists, though they are chiefly young Noblemen,of respectable talents no doubt, though, as to any experience in diplomacy, they have still to acquire it. That the mission of his Grace is not one of mere ceremony, we readily at i m it ; a nd that one of its objects may be to retain Russia in her present pacific policy, is highly probable. If this be part of his in structions, it will be attended w i t h less dif acuity' titan is commonly itnagined, as the Rus sian Government is too much hampered at home to think seriously of involving itself in fresh difficulties. Moreover, its financial cir cumstonces oppose an almost insuperable bar to its indulging in ambitious projects ; and war would only inflame the dangerous spirit, which is said to pervade the army. At the same time should hostilities take an unsuccessful turn, the consequences Might beratel to the present dynasty, particularly as those Powers, that are now most closely allied with the Russian Court, would, in'order to restrain its ambition, add fuel to the flame. Besides, Russia is so vulnerable on the side of Poland, that only a necessity, to which every thing else must yield, would probably in duce her to expose herself to the risk, which would threaten her in that quarter in the event of hostilities. [THE RE rItESENTATIVE.I It is with reluctance that we animadvert upon the language held by nny of our contemporary Journals ; but that of the Times of Wednesday, on the present state of commercial affairs, as we ii in the leading articles, as in the report on the state of the mon e y-market, is, in our opinion, so calculated to do mischief at the present moment, and betrays such recklessness of consequences, that we cannot suffer any time to elapse without all attempt at refutation. In regard to the amend ment of the resolution respecting the further issue of small notes, the Times assumes that the extension of the pefiod for the Bank of England Issue to the 10th October, is a mere deception, and that the issue will - again open in February, 1827. This, we must confess, to us appears to be the merest assumption, unsupported by any probability f as far as the language or measures of administration are concerned, and really resting upon no other possible ground but an anticipated conviction of the impossi bility of doing without a circulation in notes of small denomination. Now the Times has uni formly combated the necessity of such a circula tion ; has laboured to prove the expediency and facility of such a circulation being immediately withdrawn ; and yet the utter defeat of the mea sure is prognosticated from a partial issue of Bank of England notes for a period of ten months. — The next point is, assistance to the mercantile inte rests, under the pressure of their present (Men!- ties.—And here again it is intimated that Liver pool will ask and obtain from the President of the Board of Trade, as its Representative, what the City of London has been unable to obtain from the Chancellor of the Exche quer. This again is mere assumption, and not the most fair supposition. Our own opinion is, that an observation of the greater diffusion of the mercantile distress, than may have at first ap peared, would fully justify the Government iu extending their accommodation and assistance to the utmost limit that considerations of sound policy will permit. In such a course there is neither deception nor departure from sound prin ciple--no ground for dispair ; but, on the con trary, an abundant cause of practical consolation. The very knowledge that such is the prevalent feeling, will do much to prevent the dangers apprehended on the coming sales of March,when, not the prophecies of soothsayers or journalists, but the pecuniary engagements - of our merchants, are to be fulfilled. OLD BAILEY. CONSPIRACY. Yesterday F. J. Ri;, , anti, --- I.llfieice, alias Garner, C. G. Isselt, and B. Baker, were indicted with J. Collins (out on bail), with conspiring to obtain false letters of administration from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, with intent to de fraud S. B. Bayward of 2001. lss. in the Navy 5 per Cents. There were other counts in the indictment, which charged the prisoners with conspiring to defraud the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, the Governor and Coin pany of the Bank of England, and lastly with intent to defraud his Majesty, to all of which the prisoners pleaded Not Guilty. The prisoner Itigaud requested that the witnesses might be ordered out of Court, which was done. He requested also that Mr. Freshfield might go out, if he was to be examined as a witness. The REcoatirn said that this rested with the Court, which would make no order to banish the Solicitor for the prosecution from the Court. _ _ . _ Mr. Sergeant Bositx (WET stated the case' to the Jury at considerable length. The Jury had heard that the prisoners were charged with an attempt to defraud Mr. S. B. Bayward, by the procuration of false letters of administration. Before he called witnesses, it would be necessary for him to make some observations on the case, as it took a circuitous route before it arrived at the point when the false document was pro cured. There was a person of the name orCollins connected with the transaction, who is a professional man, and who, on the present occasion, was an active agent in the procuring these let. tern of administration, but how tar he did it, conscious of doing wrong, the Jury would say, when they heard the evidence which he should call on the part of the prosecution. A num ber of letters and affidavits were prepared by Collins—some addressed to nigauti, and others purporting to be the oaths of certain persons whose residences could not be found, although the strictest inquiry had been made. There were a variety of sums standing in the name of Mr. Bayward, in the Bank of England, so that the persons who obtained the sum of 2001. 15s. named in the indictment, would also have it in their power to procure the other sums there standing. The Bank being aware of this were bound to make strict inquiry, and that inquiry led to the present investi gation. A great number o f witnesses were called to substantiate the above stated facts, whose examination lasted to a very late hour. —lt was altogether very uninteresting. The charges against Rigaud, Issett, and Meeke were fully substantiated, but those against the other prisoners were not made good. On being called upon for their defence, they all declared their innocence, and Rigaud complained of having been put a fourth time upon his trial for alleged offences of which he had already Recorder commenced 'summing up th e eviAd etntceenb o'cloc k en a cqui t ted. At With thetriets o l t:. e ct to E th B lizabeaker, his Lordship di- - reeted an acquittal ; and put it to the Jury to say whether there was any reasonable doubt to warrant the Jury in a similar ver dict with respect to the other prisoners. Ills Lordship concluded at one o'clock this morning. The Jury retired, anti on their return found the prisoners Rigaud, Issett, anti Meeke, Guilty, and Collins and Baker Not Guilty, but at the same time the 'Jury begged to remark that the conduct of Collins had been extremely indiscreet. JUDGMENT. The sentence of the Court was then pronounced as follows : -..ltigaud to be imprisoned for three years in the haute of Car. rection ; Issett, for two years, each to be kept to hard labour ; and Meeke to one year's imprisonment, and to he kept to such labour Its her health would permit. Rigaud on leaving the bar declared that he should work, however hard, cheerfully, as Miss Baker had escaped. SOUTH AmEttICAN THEATRICALS.-011 my return to our inn in the evening, I. found a French lady of about 50, Lind exceedingly ugly ; she spoke almost every language in the world, and was, according to her own representation, the most intimate friend of all the great ladies in th e four quarters of the globe. She had just tra velled by land from California, where a friend and fellow traveller of hers had died ; she had passed thus unprotected through regions inha bited by cannibal tribes, accompanied only by an Indian girl, whose brother had been eaten. We were joking about the way of spending our evening, and one of us proposed going to the theatre ; to our infinite surprise and amusement, she told us that there actually was a theatre at Pueblo Viejo, that the Manager gave himself out for the first musician at the Court of Madrid, and that there was to be a performance that very evening. She was tired and would not go, but I was too eager to know what sort of a thing the theatre of Pueblo Viejo could be to hesitate for a moment. I was conducted to a shed, constructed in the same style us the others, at the door of which was placed a table with a candle upon it and a boy who stood yawning and waiting for the arrival of spectators. " You are the first," said he, " and it Is very late."—" Well, I will come again." I returned in half an hour, and found, to my great regret, that there would be no performance, there being unfortunately no audience. The boy said the people were all gone to the fete of Pueblo Nuevo. I was determined, if possible, to see the theatre, and I entered boldly. The pit is open to the heavens, the walls are formed of canes co vered with leaves, and the stages and scenery are wretched as can be imagined. The Prima D onn a, who, if she was nothing else, was at least a white, stood in her little room divesting herself of the sock, or buskin, and of all her splendours ; I bowed to her, and the meagre ap. pearance of her face strongly welcomed me to ask her to supper.--(I eelay Mirror.) MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. EXTENSIVE FRAUDS ON PAWNBROKERS. , Yesterday John Jackson alias Israel Isaac DemiMahn, I well-known character at the fashionable gambling-houses at the west end of the town, stood charged on three separate Indict ments, with having fraudulently obtained the sum of 9001. and upwards, from Mr. Lawton, pawnbroker in 'Green-street, Leicester-square. The prisoner was on Tuesday last placed at the Old Bailey for the same offences, then charged as felonies but the Learned Judge who presided being of opinion that they amounted only to fraud, he was acquitted, but ordered to be detained. The bills on which he had now been arraigned had been found in the interim by the Grand Jury. Mr. ALLEY, in stating the case, observed to the Jury, that who the prisoner was, and what the station he had occupied in society, it was not at all necessary that he should detail to them ; it was enough that he was before them, and they of course would deal with the case as its merits required. The Learned Counsel then proceeded to detail the facts of the case as afterwards made out in evidence. Mr. Bayliss, foreman to Mr. Lawton, stated, that on the 7th of March last year, the prisoner calle di upon hint at the shop, and said he should require a loan of money upon some loose diamonds, but he should wish, on leaving them, to be allowed to seal them up, as he was going abroad, and should be obliged to employ an agent to redeem them ; and he there fore felt it to be advisable to adopt such precautions as would preclude the possibility of the agent, or the other persons through whose hands they must necessarily pass, changing them for stones of inferior value. Viritness assented, observ ing that it would be more satisfactory to all parties. The pri soner was then alien shewn into into a small parlour at the back , of the shop, where the diamonds were produced and weighed. They weighed 40 carats, anti the sum agreed Wbe advanced on them was 1601. The diamonds were handed over to the prisoner, for him to seal them up, witness standing by while he did it. The prisoner sealed the paper in two plaCes, but, by some slight of hand, contrived in passing it over to witness, to substitute another paper, sealed and folded in an exactly similar way. The parcel was deposited in the plate chest, and remained untouched till June last, when, in ' consequence of frauds which were about that time found to have been practised by the prisoner, upon other pawnbrokers► witness opened it, and found it to contain only a few comn 3o P rubies, of the value of V. lty a Juror.—The seal was impressed with an initial "J." . ' By the Couu.r.—The rubies and stones produced are not those on which the money was lent, and which he pretended to seal up. Cross-examined by Mr. CURWOOD.—Why, according ,to your own showing, you are not one of the acuton pawnbrokers imaginable ? Pray who was present when you broke the seal P—No one. Mr. ClinwoOD.—And don't you think it would have been better to have had some one present ?-1 time I scarcely thought it possible that I could have been cheated. Mr. Cunwoon.—You knew him well, and had often ad. vanced him large sums of money before ?—I had. Mr. CURWOOD.—Sometimes, I believe, on his in " 1. 0. U." without his leaving any thing beyond A Inq g of in fictitious pledge, just to enable you to make an entry you books, and make out a ticket accordingly ?- 11 ' 11 " 1° Never r• I always had a value to the best of my belief. but at the Mr. Cu rtwoon-1n all your prior transactions, you found him to be a fair-dealing man P—Witness. I did. s p a ts Mr. CUHWOOD—That is to say, he always paid you 25, 30, or 40 per cent ?-IVitness. I never demanded or"' ceived any such rates. oat Mr. Cunwoon—Conscientiously, then, how much used to take?—Witness. Never beyond the rate allow;31 by Ast Parliament. saiwl he was instructed that it was not uncommon for Mr. Cu ItwOoD, in addresaing tl J f tke d'efet 4B n t ' ury or lend money to such persons as they thought they could rely without receiving any substantial pledge, merely takinf„ s t ias fling something, in order to evade the usury Inws• ere manner. his client informed him, the stones now produced w a left, and the money advanced ; but which his client, from train of unfortunate circumstances, having since been unable to pay, the present prosecution was instituted, in the hope screwing it out of hint. No witnesses were called. Verdict—Guilty. e hind Mr. ALLEY.—This, gentlet • • nen, is precisely the mou w ere of fraud as that by which Messrs. Rundell and Bridge '' pawnbrokers to cheated out of 11,1500/. ri few years back. e l i :h t s e , prisonere wag ing s afterwards il4r oteem a i rra to i arraigned ett of wtwhoicit3e*ltamiliced: " guilty, walt Intent to redeem them ;" but being t° ' iity plea could not be received, he retracted it, and pleaded 44 10 generally. t The COURT sentenced him to seven years' transpertio " tio The Jury were then discharged, and the Co urt st ijoal o Thursday week. —.._.... ...._.,.._ _ 1 DUEL.—A. letter fro m l' ' Wi t n gr ii f : 111151 trt , it.olcls Esq., addressed to the Editor of the [ 63. -r -r . Herald, says, that the cause of the duel twt" , J. 11. Tulbot, Esq,, of Talbot flail, and J. er Devereux, Esq., of Carrignienan, we', th e form returning a letter addressed to hint by Ol e I , at i t t e a 7: ' after haviug read it, by enclosing it iii it ' g. " ) 1 1,. envelope, sealing it with his arn.S, n n(l ' Sallie g his pen across the first addrefs teti it in re-d iree ' , a ria!' . to Mr. Devereux. it was returned laY asP messenger.—(Dub/in Correspondent.) ----signo.-- e!! C • ...tun.: rEitTEIT SIIIVEIt NV iTCUES An as tir •fl new imposition if ' - - s a owe a to tte p in aw y t t i et b i ro a k t e t rs he in s pan hop as to watc ei, which shouldormte 3 „.„1, wag r: Merritt, in nd eig ht missies, on Friday I i o c f ul A a i r, and to the pubic in geriewofr last. Between the boura Y :f l A k e -svicrneelt ': i ' es ' ty' ll in the evening of that day, some person, who gav e in ' lAtra* I ‘ ) V e . i i l i liav n Smith, and stated that he lived in Felix-streeLl nna u , n o t fr in ere t d o a be watch, .pretending to be silver, toLlesTop'ion,. req i with 15a. on the article ; lent one pound upon it : when ti , . be s ow fled with Johnson, asked Smith whether he would no , ' op tit t; of what is called the " hall-mark" Maur ,„' t .: eI 1 d a inside of the watch-case, and therefore he topprooe" - i n n o i the fact being that John i s p t he' by tn company with Smith to his residence i n i., ov irg right before he advanced the fifteen shillings to him . ,!,; t oar the watch in question in Johnson's hands, Smith s m ith wss with the NI: but when they gat to PalaCe-yar, ° 11 ,, 1 ,:d beet! accosted by one of his associates, who inquired wit)! lie "1 ricl of so long away ? Morritt's bely,rnation_t Here the confederates in depredann,ny, the proffer watch, _it proved to be cased with very II" clin tiles# who returned home. limn an ""- Ow nia metal, neatly edged, and looking like silver fib the light. The dial-face was handsome, the movement I vos or' semblance of being sound, and the whole machine 2titotti tainlr up are already prepared for circulation. This caution, it 13 ,i, ill , in a superior style. Numbers of similar, /wed, will not, however, have been given In vain ; and under t" cod ' pression it ix now cosismunicated to the metropolis of the mercial world. ______.....e.;-'ll (;OM, MARKET, FEB. 22. w ell, '.l !101l 3 4# 32,B6deainnont, Ma lid—Hebburn Alain, 35s ra . , w, __w•—Kenston AVest. 325—Ord's Redliugh, 31§.—IV, pa _ dlington, 355--Walls End Green's. 33$ 641--" rrod r ' market, yeareth, 35s—Ni . ails End Riddell's, 36s fldTanfield 1 t, ulls—Cownen, 31s—Walls End Lyon's, 35s oa.-----S l ' .l) 10 i—Ships sold, 9i, ---......1"-- BIRTHS. On Tuesday, the Marchioness of Claaricarde sarell 41e/ H C ' s" livered of 2alst daughter. the inst., at the Heath, Tieniel-iltrnPitea" the lady of Astley Cooper, Esq., of a son. MARRIED. f St s Yesterday, at St. John's, Hackney. Jelin Tebbotl. ° l i ter s ford-hill and Austinfriars, Esq., to - l'ilartha, °DIY " 34 o f John Ambler, Esq., of West Hackne d i aughti oil ing , I', At Canterbury, Ann, only daughter of James at,,Aer Rridge-house-place, Newington causeway, to john 1 51 ;d)iiin" field, of Noble-street, Falcon square, woollen-0414i s cheater warehouseman. I ,n Ilis NO DIE D. At Calais, on the 6th inst., John Petrie, 13x4 '' 1 10 1 year, formerly M.P. for Gloom. On the '2lst inst., at his house in Little Distili rA4ne' . 0,,,pg" don, Mr. Edward Costerd, aged 60. „ h p r t ...,-. ,„srf i On the 12.111 of October, at Penang, John no-- 01 - cart - Esq., aged 23. youngest son of Lieutenant- 001er of Shooterix-hill. r 0 ., ivanus On the 22d, in the 111 l of his age , )."- id t t year 131 i• son of Paul Ber3n, of Tottenham. On the 18th inst., st Margate, Elizabeth , second " 1/4 0 Mr. John Howell, of Dane-hill. „ $1(1' On the 22t1 inst., in Bedtbrthiquare Henry Greg° , ......„. the With year of his age. ............ ......,—.—.-- , -- -- " -----.. Sti r/4 --- t ale Printed and Published fot the Pnoettlirrono. ! A wl. OFFICE, No. 112, Strand, by J. B. CAI"'